Google App Engine Preview Release
Google has begun accepting sign ups for their Google App Engine preview release. Google App Engine is basically a hosting solution from Google, where you can run your web apps on their servers and using their custom database system (BigTable). So now, you can write your own web application running on top of Google’s mega infrastructure without having to worry much about servers and load balancing. You know, all that fun stuff. You’ll be able to use their API’s to access the database and your gmail account to send emails from your web app.
Accounts are limited to the first 10,000 developers, and applications are restricted to the free account limits. Every Google App Engine application can use up to 500MB of persistent storage and enough bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views. It currently only runs applications written in Python, and will later also support Ruby and PHP apps.
Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine – TechCrunch
Google App Engine
